Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
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The end of democracy will come not with mobs burning the Capitol, food riots, juntas of national salvation, or demagogues leading the peasants to burn the castles of the rich. It will end, instead, with highly educated, technically proficient, otherwise decent men and women with families and children and mortgages and car payments who will decide that uninformed, spoiled, irascible voters simply can’t produce coherent demands other than “just get it for us,” and they will act accordingly.
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within…
Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from Within on Modern Democracy by Tom Nichols
The end of democracy will come not with mobs burning the Capitol, food riots, juntas of national salvation, or demagogues leading the peasants to burn the castles of the rich. It will end, instead, with highly educated, technically proficient, otherwise decent men and women with families and children and mortgages and car payments who will decide that uninformed, spoiled, irascible voters simply can’t produce coherent demands other than “just get it for us,” and they will act accordingly.